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- This application pertains to quantum cascade (QC) lasers.
- Quantum cascade (QC) lasers are known. See, for instance, U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,457,709 and 5,509,025. See also J. Faist et al, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 68, p. 3680 (1996), all incorporated herein by reference.
- a prior art QC laser comprises a multiplicity of identical "repeat units", each repeat unit comprising an active region and an injector/relaxation region. With each active region is associated an upper and at least one lower energy level. Under an applied field, charge carriers (typically electrons) migrate from a lower energy level of a given active region through an injector/relaxation region to the upper energy level of the adjacent downstream active region, followed by a radiative transition from the upper to a lower level of the active region, then proceeding through an injector/relaxation region into the next active region, and so on.
- charge carriers typically electrons
- each charge carrier that is introduced into the relevant portion of the QC laser ideally undergoes N transitions (N being the number of repeat units, about 25, for instance), each such transition resulting in emission of a photon of wavelength ⁇ , typically in the midinfrared (exemplarily 3-13 ⁇ m).
- QC designs have been disclosed.
- the above referenced '025 patent discloses a design with "vertical" transition, i.e., a transition from an upper to a lower energy level of a given quantum well (QW)
- QW quantum well
- U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/744,292 filed Nov. 6, 1996 by Capasso et al. discloses a design with superlattice (SL) active region.
- I/R region designs have also been disclosed. See, for instance, U.S. Pat. No. 5,727,010, which discloses a chirped superlattice (SL) I/R region.
- SL superlattice
- An energy level in the active region of a given repeat unit is in "resonance" with an energy level of the active region of an adjacent downstream repeat unit if the two energy levels are at substantially the same energy, and the semiconductor region between the two active regions is selected to facilitate high electron transport through the injector region from the energy level of the given repeat unit to the equi-energetic energy level of the adjacent downstream repeat unit.
- Two energy levels herein have “substantially the same energy” if the levels are aligned such that there is overlap between the broadened energy levels.
- the broadening of an energy level can be readily determined, and typically is a few meV (e.g., about 3 meV), generally less than 10 meV.
- the injector region facilitates "high electron transport" through the injector if the average electron transit time through the injector region is less than or equal to the scattering time of the electrons in the injector region.
- the invention is embodied in an article (e.g., a monitoring or measuring system) that comprises an improved QC laser.
- the QC laser comprises, in sequence, an upper optical confinement region, a waveguide core region and a lower optical confinement region, and further comprises contacts for electrically contacting the laser.
- the waveguide core region comprises a multiplicity of essentially identical repeat units, a given repeat unit comprising an injector region and an active region selected to facilitate a radiative carrier transition from an upper to a lower energy level of the active region.
- the injector comprises a multiplicity of quantum well layers, with barrier layers interleaved between the quantum well (QW) layers.
- QW quantum well
- the QW layers and barrier layers are selected such that, under a first applied bias, a lower energy level of the given active region is in resonance with the upper energy level of the adjacent downstream active region, such that carrier transfer from the lower energy level of the given active region to the upper energy level of the adjacent downstream active region is facilitated.
- the QW layers and barrier layers are furthermore selected such that, under an applied second bias larger than the first bias, there is resonant charge carrier injection from the ground state of the injector region of the given repeat unit into the upper energy level of the active region of the adjacent downstream repeat unit.
- FIG. 1 schematically depicts an exemplary QC laser
- FIGS. 2 and 3 show the conduction band edge of a repeat unit (plus adjacent downstream active region) of an exemplary QC laser according to the invention, under applied field of 45 kV/cm and 65 kV/cm, respectively;
- FIGS. 4 and 5 show data on light output power vs. drive current, for two exemplary QC lasers according to the invention
- FIG. 6 shows optical power as a function of wavelength, under different operating conditions, for an exemplary QC laser according to the invention.
- FIG. 7 schematically depicts an exemplary measuring or monitoring system comprising a QC laser according to the invention.
- FIG. 1 schematically depicts an exemplary QC laser 10.
- Numerals 11-16 designate, respectively, substrate (e.g., InP), lower optical confinement region, waveguide core region, upper optical confinement region, upper contact and lower contact.
- substrate e.g., InP
- the substrate can serve as lower optical confinement region.
- FIG. 2 schematically shows the conduction band edge of a complete repeat unit and the adjacent downstream active region of an exemplary QC laser according to the invention at a bias corresponding to an electric field of 45 kV/cm.
- the multilayer waveguide core region is lattice matched with InP, with InGaAs QWs (e.g., 21) and AlInAs barrier layers (e.g., 22).
- the active regions exemplarily comprise three QWs, closely coupled by thin barrier layers.
- FIG. 2 also shows the moduli squared of the wavefunctions that are involved in the laser transition, with numeral 1 referring to the ground state of the active region, 2 referring to the lower laser level, and 3 referring to the upper laser level. Above level 3 is shown a further level of the active region that is not involved in the operation of the exemplary QC laser.
- the wavy arrows from level 3 to level 2 indicate the laser transitions.
- FIG. 2 also shows the moduli squared of the wavefunctions in the injector.
- the multiplicity of energy states in the darkened region constitutes a "miniband” that facilitates the transport of electrons (of appropriate energy) through the injector, and the region of reduced density of states (indicated by light shading) is a "minigap” that prevents electron tunneling out of level 3 of the active region.
- FIG. 2 also shows the essentially complete alignment (in energy) of ground state 1 of the given active region with level 3 of the downstream active region, with the "miniband” facilitating electron transport from the given active region to the downstream active region.
- the electric field of 45 kV/cm at resonance was deduced from the laser operating voltage at threshold (at low temperatures) under the assumption that the field is homogeneous across the multiplicity of repeat units.
- the repeat unit had the below listed layer sequence, starting with injection barrier 23, the left-most layer in FIG. 2, and proceeding in the downstream direction.
- the layer thicknesses are in nanometers.
- Layers with underlined thickness are Si-doped 2 ⁇ 10 17 cm -3 . All other layers are undoped (i.e., not intentionally doped).
- the sequence was:
- the upper laser level (level 3) is separated from the lower laser level (level 2) by E 32 ⁇ 153.6 meV, corresponding to ⁇ ⁇ 8.08 ⁇ m.
- the longitudinal optical (L0) phonon scattering time ⁇ 32 between the two levels is calculated as 3.1 ps, and the matrix element of the optical transition as d 32 ⁇ 1.9 nm.
- the lower laser level is closely coupled to the ground state (level 1) of the active material, such that the two levels are strongly anti-crossed. This increases the matrix element d 32 with respect to d 31 , and maximizes ⁇ 32 with respect to ⁇ 31 .
- the energy difference is E 21 ⁇ 38.3 meV, designed to efficiently deplete the lower laser level of electrons via resonant L0-phonon scattering (E L0 ⁇ 34 meV).
- the corresponding lifetime is calculated as ⁇ 2 ⁇ 21 ⁇ 0.3 ps ⁇ 32 ⁇ 3.1 ps, so that population inversion between levels 3 and 2 is readily achieved.
- the L0-phonon scattering time from level 3 to level 1 is ⁇ 31 ⁇ 3.6 ps, and the scattering time into the states of the injector is estimated as ⁇ 31 ⁇ 14.6 ps.
- the injector "miniband" (that is to say, the manifold of energy levels in the injector region) has been designed as “flat", in contrast to the "funnel" injector of prior art designs.
- the flat injector is characterized by a symmetric arrangement of the electron wavefunctions (shown as moduli squared in FIG. 2).
- the ground level of the injector is located about 40 meV in energy below the upper laser level. Even the next higher level of the injector miniband is energetically lower (about 14 meV) than the upper laser level.
- Doping of the center portion of the injector region provided an electron sheet density of n ⁇ 1.6 ⁇ 10 11 cm -2 per repeat unit, resulting in a quasi-Fermi-level of about 7.5 meV under operating conditions.
- the above described layer sequence implies that at laser threshold (45 kV/cm), electrons are not injected from the Fermi surface into the upper laser level.
- level 1 of a given active region is in resonance with level 3 of the adjacent downstream active region, allowing for resonant carrier transport between successive active regions without significant carrier relaxation in the injector.
- the estimated transit time through a given injector (length 21.9 nm, "width" of the miniband ⁇ 150 meV) of the exemplary QC laser is about 0.5 ps. In comparison, the relaxation time within the injector is long since the energy separation to the adjacent lower energy level is well below the L0-phonon energy, and the ground level of the injector region is partly filled with electrons.
- the advantages of the above described exemplary QC laser is that it can avoid too early "shut-down" of the laser due to suppression of resonant tunneling.
- the upper laser level typically is filled with electrons by resonant tunneling only from the injector ground state.
- these two levels are subject to misalignment and the laser may shut off.
- the QWs and barriers of the injector are selected such that, at an applied bias field greater (typically significantly greater) than the resonance field at laser threshold, there is resonant injection of electrons from the ground state of the injector into the upper lasing level of the adjacent downstream active region.
- FIG. 3 shows the conduction band edge of the layer structure of FIG. 2 under an applied field of 65 kV/cm.
- g refers to the ground state of the injector region. Electrons typically enter the injector region at an energy above that of the ground state but undergo relaxation to the ground state during transport to the adjacent downstream active region, such that the electrons can enter the upper laser state to undergo a further laser transition.
- the first bias (45 kV/cm) corresponds to the resonance bias (and to the laser threshold)
- the second bias (65 kV/cm) substantially corresponds to peak optical power.
- 30 repeat units are disposed between conventional lower and upper optical confinement regions.
- optical confinement regions see, for instance, J. Faist et al, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 70, p. 2670 (1997); C. Gmachl et al., IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 9, p. 1090 (1997); C. Sirtori et al., IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 9, p. 294 (1997); and J. Faist et al., Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 68, p. 3680 (1996).
- the optical confinement regions consisted substantially of InP.
- InP InP
- the upper optical confinement region consisted substantially of AlInAs and GaInAs.
- the upper and lower optical confinement layers and contacts were conventional.
- the wafers were processed in conventional fashion into ridge waveguide lasers, with stripe widths ranging from 11 to 17 ⁇ m.
- the structure was etched to the bottom of the core region, and in another embodiment (“shallow etched”) the structure was etched only to the bottom of the upper optical confinement region.
- the wafers After etching, deposition and patterning of an appropriate dielectric layer (e.g., silicon nitride, and deposition and patterning of metal contacts (e.g., Ti/Au for the upper contact and Ge/Au/Ag/Au for the lower contact), all in conventional fashion, the wafers were cleaved into bars, with widths ranging from 0.75-3 mm. The facets were left uncoated. After wire bonding of the lasers, the bars were mounted in a temperature controlled cold finger cryostat, and measurements were carried out.
- an appropriate dielectric layer e.g., silicon nitride
- metal contacts e.g., Ti/Au for the upper contact and Ge/Au/Ag/Au for the lower contact
- FIG. 4 shows continuous wave (cw) light output vs. drive current, at various heat sink temperatures, for two deep-etched lasers of length 2.25 mm.
- the dashed lines were obtained from a laser with ternary top cladding, and the solid lines from a laser with InP top cladding.
- the lasers had cw power of about 200 mW/facet at 80K, at 8 ⁇ m wavelength. This output power is closely comparable to the 5 ⁇ m output power of the QC laser described in the above cited paper by Faist et al., IEEE J. Ouantum Electronics, Vol. 34, p. 336 (1998).
- FIG. 5 shows peak output power vs. drive current, at various heat sink temperatures, for two shallow etched lasers of length 2.25 mm.
- the dashed lines were obtained from a laser with ternary top cladding, and the solid lines from a laser with InP top cladding.
- the lasers were operated in pulsed mode.
- FIG. 6 shows the normalized emission spectra of QC laser as described above (width 13 ⁇ m, length 2.25 mm), measured close to laser threshold, cw and pulsed, respectively, at two different heat sink temperatures.
- the observed difference in the emission wavelengths reflects the temperature dependence of the gain spectrum of the lasers.
- the invention is described in detail in terms of a particular embodiment, having a 3-QW active region, with "vertical” laser transition.
- the lasing transition could be “diagonal”
- the active region could be a superlattice active region.
- QC lasers are advantageously used for, inter alia, detection and/or monitoring of trace gases, for example, for pollution monitoring, process control, medical or law-enforcement purposes, since these lasers can have output in one of the so-called atmospheric "windows", i.e., at a wavelength at which the clean atmosphere essentially does not absorb radiation.
- FIG. 7 schematically depicts an exemplary embodiment 70 of the invention, wherein an emission source 71 emits gas 72.
- QC laser 73 (advantageously a distributed feedback laser) emits mid-infrared radiation 74 that is directed through the emission gas, and is reflected, by any suitable means (e.g., corner reflector 75), to conventional detector 76.
- corner reflector 75 any suitable means
- the reflector could be replaced with a detector, such that the absorption during a single pass is measurable.
- the emission source is not necessarily a factory or other large-scale installation but could, for instance, be any source of a compound that has one or more absorption lines in the mid-IR.
- the source could, for instance, be a human subject, and the compound could be ethanol, or some medically significant compound.
- the gas sample could also be confined in a cell configured such that multi-path absorption is measured. For more detail on measurements, see the above-referenced '646 patent application.
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